Chapter 15 The Jade Mine Rice is Ripe

The sun just jumped out of the horizon, as if showing a smile.

Zhang Zhixuan sat upright on the futon, and had already practiced the Qi Condensation Technique three times.

The spiritual energy at the foot of the mountain was insufficient, and Zhang Zhixuan generally did not sit in meditation to refine the spiritual energy except after taking the elixir.

However, he would practice the Qi Condensation Technique three times every morning.

This spell was very magical. It could not increase the mana, nor did it have any magical powers. It only cultivated a breath of innate purple qi to warm the dantian.

Zhang Zhixuan had been practicing Taoism for ten years and had a wide range of knowledge, but he had never seen a spell with the same principle as the Qi Condensation Technique.

According to his own understanding, if he practiced this spell frequently and strengthened the innate purple qi in the dantian, when it was time to build the foundation, he could use this innate purple qi to replace most of the effects of the foundation-building pill.

This innate purple qi was peaceful and warm, just right to warm the meridians and dantian when building the foundation.

The most dangerous thing when building the foundation is the loss of control of mana.

When building the foundation, in order to break through the barrier and turn the true essence into liquid, the mana runs faster and faster. This violent mana will undoubtedly impact the meridians and dantian of the cultivator.

In addition to the effect of removing impurities from the body, the most important effect of the foundation-building pill is to delay the runaway mana and warm and repair the meridians and dantian of the cultivator.

Even if the foundation fails, life can be saved.

Therefore, building the foundation without the foundation-building pill will be extremely dangerous. According to the estimation of the ancient cultivators, only one out of thirty cultivators who build the foundation can survive by chance.

So, later cultivators created the spiritual medicine of the foundation-building pill.

Although the grade of this spiritual pill is only the third-grade upper grade, its price exceeds that of most fourth-grade spiritual pills.

Its main medicine requires a jade marrow golden mushroom that is more than a thousand years old, and five five-hundred-year-old flame fruits, Poria cocos, Qingling flower, white jade ginseng, and snow lotus as auxiliary medicines.

In addition, twenty spiritual medicines of about a hundred years old and a spiritual water of more than fourth grade are required for refining.

The Jadeite Golden Ganoderma over a thousand years old is at least a fourth-grade medium-quality spiritual herb, and its price is more than five thousand spiritual stones.

Five five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are also of a grade higher than the fourth grade, and the price of each spiritual herb is more than two thousand.

Counting the fourth-grade spiritual water and twenty third-grade spiritual herbs over a hundred years old.

To refine a furnace of foundation-building pills, the price of the spiritual herbs is at least about 30,000 low-grade spiritual stones. Not only that, the refining of foundation-building pills is also very difficult, and the difficulty is also higher than most fourth-grade spiritual pills.

Only high-level alchemy masters above the fourth grade can refine foundation-building pills.

It is precisely because of the difficulty of refining foundation-building pills that even a large sect like Qingxuan Sect can only refine one or two furnaces of foundation-building pills every ten years, and the number of successful pills is as few as five or six, and no more than twelve or thirteen.

This is the case for Qingxuan Sect, not to mention other cultivation families and casual cultivators.

Most of the foundation-building cultivators of the immortal cultivation families have to pay a huge price and have enough connections in the Qingxuan Sect to exchange for one or two foundation-building pills.

As for the casual cultivators who have a harder time surviving, they basically cannot smell the scent of foundation-building pills in their entire lives.

They can only take the risk of building a foundation before the age of 60, risking the death of an average of 30 ninth-level Qi training cultivators for only one to succeed in building a foundation by chance, and compete for this bloody chance.

"The Qi Condensation Technique is so magical. If you persist in practicing hard for more than ten years, when you reach the foundation-building stage, you can replace a considerable part of the effect of the foundation-building pill. As long as you take some pills that refine the essence and eliminate impurities, the chance of building a foundation may not be lower than that of cultivators who take foundation-building pills. It's a pity that my cultivation is still very low, and my family doesn't have much power. Otherwise, once this spell is made public, it will be like a child holding gold in a busy city." Looking at the gradually rising sun, Zhang Zhixuan exhaled the last trace of purple air and thought.

Zhang Zhixuan finished his meditation and glanced at Xiao Qingchan in the room next door.

Xiao Qingchan was still young, at the age of being lazy, and was still sleeping in.

The breeze blew gently, and the green rice straw swayed gently. The rice straw had already sprouted, and the white jade-colored rice grains the size of broad beans had already been full.

"Lazy girl, get up quickly and eat. The chalcedony rice is ripe today. Get up quickly after eating to pick the rice."

The chalcedony rice is a spiritual grass that is different from ordinary grains. The grains of this rice are not only large but also full. There are only three or five grains of chalcedony rice on each straw.

Because the stems of spiritual rice are very tough, they can only be cut with magic tools, and the harvesting speed is very slow.

Once the spiritual rice is ripe, it must be picked within three to five days.

Otherwise, the rice will fall off. Once the chalcedony rice enters the soil, it will quickly sprout and become inedible.

Therefore, when the chalcedony rice is ripe, the rice grains need to be picked one by one, just like picking fruits, which is much slower than cutting rice.

Qingchan kicked the quilt impatiently, glanced at Zhang Zhixuan impatiently, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and reluctantly got up to eat.

Since Qingchan, the little girl, started to practice, the chalcedony rice allocated by Zhang Zhixuan was not enough to eat.

The little girl has a good spiritual root, and the speed of refining essence and opening up meridians is very fast, so she usually eats more.

Because chalcedony rice is sweet and delicious, and can also speed up the practice of innate cultivators, this greedy little girl can no longer eat ordinary rice.

Even if she is hungry every day, she has to wait for the chalcedony rice to be served before she starts to eat.

One person's rice is naturally not enough for two people.

Every time it is close to the end of the month, the allocated chalcedony rice will be eaten up.

In the past two hundred years, the Zhang family has been a gradually declining immortal cultivation family, and the resources provided to the cultivators are not very many.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation speed is fast, his spiritual root aptitude is also good, and the family will treat him a little better.

Even so, the resources provided by the family will not be enough to support Qingchan's cultivation in the future.

If Zhang Zhixuan wants to continue his cultivation normally, he needs to develop another source of income.

Qingchan got up reluctantly, and the two of them quickly ate a small bowl of spiritual rice, then packed up their things and started picking spiritual rice.

Qingchan is already at the fourth level of innate, and her arms have hundreds of pounds of strength. Although she is small, she is a little faster than Zhang Zhixuan in picking spiritual rice.